Lake Travis ISD equipping all school buses with seat belts

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Lake Travis Independent School District is taking steps to make sure its students get to and from the classroom safely. That means all students will be buckling up on the big yellow bus.

“You click, tug and snug,” director of transportation with LTISD Rhonda Davis explain that’s the rhyme Lake Travis students will be repeating when school starts back up in August.

“It’s just to increase our students safety we think that’s the first and foremost of what we do. We transport precious cargo,” says Davis.

Old school buses don’t have seat belts on them, so starting next week, the district will be installing three-point seat belts to each of the seats on all of their old school buses.

Davis says parents are excited about the changes. “They feel like that their children are already getting into their own vehicles, and they know when they get in the vehicles that the first thing they do is put on that seat belt.”

Installing seat belts on the old buses will take most of the summer to complete. The goal is to have all school buses ready by the start of the 2018-19 school year.